On Saturday, September 14, 2019 6:43:13 PM EDT Thomas Goirand wrote: > Hi, > > As I wrongly thought python-extras was used only by OpenStack stuff, I > removed Python 2 support for it. Then someone filed a bug against > python-testtools (ScottK, I believe) saying that it became RC. > Therefore, I went ahead and removed Python 2 support for testtools, but > now, this implies that a few packages which I didn't wish to impact are > also RC: > > * bzr-builddeb > * bzr-email > * bzr-fastimport > * bzr-git > * bzr-stats > * bzr-upload > * loggerhead > > So, basically, unfortunately, Bazaar has lost some of its build > dependencies. > > So, I went ahead, and looked what I could do for Bazaar. Unfortunately, > when looking at: > https://launchpad.net/bzr > > I can see no release since January 2016, no daily archive. The last > commit in the bzr repository of bzr is from 2017-03-17. > > Then I went to see how much Python 3 effort would be needed, and I > quickly gave up. It'd be A LOT of work, but nobody seems doing ANY work > on bzr anymore. > > So I wonder: is it time to remove bazaar from Debian? Or is there any > vague plan to make it work with Python 3? If we are to remove it from > Debian, then we'd better do it ASAP.
As I understand it, bazaar (bzr) is dead and being replaced by breezy (brz), which is python3 compatible. https://www.breezy-vcs.org/ My inference is that anything bzr specific can go, but I'm not involved in either project. Scott K
